A new message popped onto Blair's screen from a friend who helped with his website. “What viral insanity should we spread this morning?” the friend asked. “The more extreme we become, the more people believe it,” Blair…

A girl born brain-damaged after her mother contracted the human form of mad cow disease (BSE) faces losing her home because of benefit cuts linked to the switch to universal credit. Since her mother's death when she was seven months old, Emily…

At the end of January 2017, days after Donald Trump's inauguration, I sat in a busy Pret a Manger sandwich bar in central London, a stone's throw from the mother of parliaments, and flicked through snapshots of Donald Trump on a mobile phone. The…

Words aren't cheap, they're free. And in this age – of Facebook, of Twitter – they travel far and fast. Words that are intended to wound or damage are tossed off in the blink of an eye, tapped out in a few seconds flat, on a keyboard…

Is a deal better than no deal? In a bid to answer that question, Mr Steerpike published a list of the 40 horrors buried in the small print of Theresa May's Brexit deal. Downing Street have since been in touch to put forward their own 40 rebuttals…